Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds.

Not a guess. Not a theory.

A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it.

Samsung TVs: every minute.
LG TVs: every 15 seconds.

Even when you're just using it as a monitor.

Here's how to turn it off for every brand:

First, what's actually happening.

Your TV has a hidden feature called ACR- Automatic Content Recognition.

Think of it like Shazam, but for your screen.

It takes tiny snapshots of whatever you're watching. Sends a fingerprint to the company's servers. They match it to figure out exactly what's on your screen.

Every show. Every channel. Every game. Second by second.

This isn't speculation.

Researchers at UC Davis, University College London, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid tested Samsung and LG TVs.

Published in the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference.

They captured all the network traffic leaving these TVs.

Samsung sent data to its ACR servers every minute.
LG sent data every 15 seconds.

Paper: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"

8 Types of Men That WOMEN NEVER Leave

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1. A man who doesn't give a fucck.

1. A man who doesn't give a fucck.

This doesn't mean being careless or disrespectful, not at all. It means being emotionally independent.

Most men crumble in the face of a woman's silence, indifference, or withdrawal.

But the man she can't walk away from is the one who doesn't bend over backwards to please her.

He has his own world, his own priorities, ambitions, his own code, and he refuses to betray it for anyone.

If she pulls away, he doesn't chase her, he LETS GO.

SitRep - 07/05/26 - Numerous long-range strikes in Russia

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Overnight and early morning, Ukrainian long-range drones struck several targets. From radars to naval assets.

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Missed the latest?

https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2052271542948495766

As usual we start with Russian losses

https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2052271922231103688

Jason Statham is 58. He still does his own stunts in his films.

His director on Beekeeper said: "I've done a lot of action, but he took me to school."

7 things Statham does that anyone could copy:

1. Train before excuses start.

Statham trains early. His rule: "Get out of bed and just do it. That way you'll never find an excuse not to."

The day's energy ledger is set before email, traffic, and phone calls touch you.

2. 35 minutes. Six days a week.

That's Statham's documented routine. "Six days a week, 35 minutes a day."

Shorter than most lunch breaks. The body adapts to consistent reps, not heroic Saturdays.

OVERTHINKING IN ISLAM

Did you know The Prophet ﷺ taught a way to stop overthinking before it turns into anxiety?

Overthinking isn’t just “thinking too much.”

It’s a loop:
A thought → doubt → fear → more thoughts → more fear.

Until your chest feels tight and your heart feels tired.
Islam breaks that loop early.

The Prophet ﷺ didn't suggest you "journal" your intrusive thoughts or "negotiate" with them.

He taught a Hard Reset.

"If one of you experiences doubts let him stop it." (Bukhari)

Not analyze it. Not explore it.
Not spiral.

Stop it.

This is what modern psychology calls thought interruption.

Recap of tonight's Hormuz Crisis Expert Panel:

Tonight I hosted a 2.5 hour expert panel on the Hormuz crisis. Eight speakers across military strategy, energy markets, information warfare, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Kurdish frontline from a journalist on the ground in Iraq, and a voice from inside Iran that will stay with everyone who heard it. Without editing or applying my opinion, here is what was covered and said.

MILITARY (Matt Tardio @angertab , 18C 10th SFG)

Matt opened with the strategic picture: Iran is controlling two critical waterways through terror tactics, the Red Sea via the Houthis and the Strait of Hormuz directly. The combination of both would be catastrophic for global trade, especially the EU. He emphasized that 50,000+ US troops, 200+ aircraft, and two carrier strike groups are deployed. This is the largest US force posture in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq invasion. The ceasefire exists on paper but skirmishes are continuous. Both sides are demonstrating capability as leverage for negotiations.

KURDISH SITUATION (Wladimir van Wilgenburg, journalist based in Iraqi Kurdistan @vvanwilgenburg )

Wladimir reported live from the ground.
21 people killed in Iraqi Kurdistan since February 28 from Iranian drone strikes. Iranian Kurdish parties have approximately 10,000 fighters willing to operate against the regime but are awaiting a green light from the US and Israel. Despite the April 8 ceasefire, Iran continues daily drone attacks on Kurdish opposition parties. Three attacks on three different Kurdish parties happened today alone. Iraq is pressuring Kurdish authorities to move these opposition groups away from border areas. Trump has discussed arming protesters through Kurdish channels, but Kurdish sources deny receiving weapons and argue distribution would be nearly impossible logistically.

I’m only addressing this @AOC shit once I looked up to her just like many others on the left but when she started selling out over Palestine it was a wrap. Secondly I already stated I haven’t had a conversation with her in 4 years literally! She her team her staff whoever

Has had direct contact with me in the past. The reason I can’t fuck with these democrats is because they all knew I was in Prison 9 months ago in Israel and said absolutely nothing! With the exception of Rashida and Summer Lee! @AOC and @ZohranKMamdani 1000 percent knew.

They not under fucking rocks instead they tap dance and cherry pick on what to speak out about and that’s not genuine solidarity. I was just detain coming back from Cuba a month ago another opportunity ain’t heard a thing.

The promised thread is here!!!!

To explain why hudson's introduction to the fashion world wasn't a casualty we'll have to go back in time to him signing with CAA.

This is a LONG timeline guys so grab your coffee, tea, wine, whatever and keep up! 👇

Idk if you remember, but when our Starboy was in Milan (god what a time) he had lunch with a CEO the day after the Dsquared2 show.

That man babes it's the Purple Pr CEO, this it's the LARGEST and one of the most important PR agencies in the fashion world.

An example: you want to make and add for Versace with Adriana Lima shoot by some important photographer, in a certain location, well they do it.

BREAKING: I asked Claude to upgrade my LinkedIn profile.

It didn’t just “upgrade” it. It turned it into a recruiter magnet.

Here are the exact 7 prompts I used:

1. Authority Content Ideas

"Give me 15 LinkedIn post ideas that position me as an expert in [your niche] and attract inbound leads."

2. Profile Strategy Audit

"Act as a LinkedIn personal branding strategist. Audit my current profile and identify why it's not attracting inbound leads. Be brutally honest."

1/5 MAPPING ANTI-ELECTION INTEGRITY NETWORKS—Past & Present

Anti-Election Integrity Campaign Launched to Mandate Mass-Scale No-Excuse Vote-By-Mail Option as Constitutional Right in AZ Constitution to Counter Rising Republican Election Integrity Movement

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2/5 MAPPING ANTI-ELECTION INTEGRITY NETWORKS—Past & Present

Anti-Election Integrity Campaign Launched to Mandate Mass-Scale No-Excuse Vote-By-Mail Option as Constitutional Right in AZ Constitution to Counter Rising Republican Election Integrity Movement

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3/5 MAPPING ANTI-ELECTION INTEGRITY NETWORKS—Past & Present

Anti-Election Integrity Campaign Launched to Mandate Mass-Scale No-Excuse Vote-By-Mail Option as Constitutional Right in AZ Constitution to Counter Rising Republican Election Integrity Movement

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Education increasingly operates under a compensatory logic: every deficit in civil society becomes schools’ responsibility. Children are not playing enough, so schools must provide play. They are not socializing enough, so schools must provide socialization.

This is one of progressive Ed’s lines of reasoning for their position, but it eats itself. Schools inherit responsibilities once distributed across society. Education expands beyond teaching and learning into emotional, social, nutritional, and therapeutic domains.

This creates a recursive dependency. The more schools absorb non-academic functions, the less other institutions perceive themselves as responsible for cultivating them. What begins as compensation gradually becomes erosion.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact is the topic that comes up every day in my replies so I thought I would write a long piece explaining the rationale behind it !

Part 1:

Western historians and their ideological allies have spent decades smearing this decision as cynical or opportunistic. This article rejects that framing entirely. The pact was not a compromise. It was a masterstroke of statecraft, executed with cold precision by a leader who understood better than anyone that the Soviet Union's survival was the precondition for the defeat of world fascism. History vindicated Stalin completely.

To understand the pact, one must first understand the criminal failure of the Western powers in the years that preceded it.

Throughout the 1930s, the Soviet Union was the only major power that consistently and sincerely opposed the rise of Nazi Germany. Under Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, the USSR championed collective security, called for a united anti-fascist front, and pleaded with Britain and France to build a defensive coalition capable of stopping Hitler before war became unavoidable. The Western powers refused at every turn. Their reasons were not principled. They were ideological.

For the ruling classes of Britain and France, Nazi Germany was not a threat to be stopped; it was a weapon to be directed eastward against the Soviet Union and the socialist project it represented.

This calculation was laid bare at Munich in September 1938. Britain and France, without consulting or even informing the Soviet Union, handed Hitler the Sudetenland on a silver platter. Czechoslovakia, a sovereign nation with a capable military and treaty obligations from both France and the USSR, was simply surrendered.

Stalin had personally signaled the Soviet Union's readiness to honor its commitments and defend Czechoslovakia. France refused to act, and the chance to stop Hitler without a general war was squandered. Stalin correctly concluded that the West had deliberately steered German aggression eastward and would do so again at the Soviet Union's direct expense.

The Anglo-French-Soviet negotiations that limped along through the summer of 1939 confirmed every suspicion. The Western delegations arrived without binding authority, stalled endlessly, and refused to address the core Soviet requirement: guaranteed military access through Poland and Romania to actually engage German forces. Britain and France were not negotiating in good faith. They were performing diplomacy while privately hoping that Hitler and Stalin would exhaust each other, leaving the capitalist West to dictate terms to a weakened Europe. Stalin saw through this performance with perfect clarity.

Faced with a West that had chosen appeasement over alliance, Stalin took the only path that protected the Soviet state. He turned the Western powers' own strategy against them. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact denied Hitler the quick eastern war he wanted and preserved the Soviet Union for the fight that was coming. It was a strategic masterstroke that bought the time the USSR needed to prepare the most powerful military force the world had ever seen.

The defining feature of Stalin's leadership in this period was his absolute clarity about the future. While Western leaders clung to delusions of lasting peace, Stalin never wavered in his understanding that war with Germany was inevitable. The only question was when it would come and whether the Soviet Union would be ready.

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As historians have documented, Molotov later recalled that Stalin believed the USSR would only reach full military parity with Nazi Germany around 1943. Stalin was a realist who made decisions on the basis of material conditions, not wishful thinking. In 1939, the Red Army was powerful but not yet at its peak. The immense industrialization program launched under the Five-Year Plans had transformed the Soviet Union from a backward agrarian country into an industrial giant, but the military still needed time to absorb new technology, train new commanders, and field the next generation of weapons that Soviet engineers were already developing.

The Great Patriotic War proved that Stalin's assessment was correct. The Red Army that turned the tide at Moscow in December 1941, that annihilated the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in 1942-43, and that swept from the Volga to Berlin between 1943 and 1945 was not the army of 1939. It was the army that two years of accelerated preparation had forged into the most formidable land force in human history. Without the time the pact purchased, that army would never have existed in the form that made victory possible.

Stalin also understood something Western analysts consistently failed to grasp: the socialist system's capacity for rapid, total industrial mobilization was its supreme strategic asset. Given sufficient time, Soviet industry could and would outproduce Germany in every category of war materiel. Every month the pact held was another month of tanks off the assembly lines in the Urals, another month of aircraft rolling out of factories east of the Volga, another month of soldiers trained and officers promoted. Time was on the Soviet Union's side. Stalin knew it. The pact delivered it.

The proof of Stalin's intentions lies not in the diplomatic record but in what the Soviet Union actually accomplished between August 1939 and June 1941. The scale and urgency of Soviet war preparation during this period demolishes any suggestion that the pact represented genuine accommodation with fascism. Every resource of the Soviet state was mobilized for the coming fight.

The Soviet rearmament effort was already underway before the pact but accelerated dramatically in its wake. The First Five-Year Plan, launched in 1928, had already oriented the entire Soviet economy toward military-industrial strength. By 1934, while the Western democracies remained mired in disarmament and complacency, the Soviet Union was producing 3,509 tanks per year, more than the rest of Europe combined.

The USSR had not waited for Hitler to become a threat; it had been building against that threat for over a decade.
The Third Five-Year Plan, running from 1938 to 1941, redoubled this effort with a ferocity that reflected the urgency of the international situation. The share of military spending in the Soviet budget rose from 13% to 25% during this period. The plan ruthlessly prioritized armaments and defense infrastructure. An entire network of new military factories was constructed east of the Ural Mountains, a deliberate strategic decision to place Soviet industrial capacity beyond the reach of any German advance.

This proved to be an act of profound foresight. When the German invasion came, these eastern factories allowed the Soviet Union to sustain and then dramatically expand production even while fighting for survival. As Soviet planners documented, the timely construction of backup plants in the Volga region, the Urals, and Siberia made it possible "not only to preserve the military potential of the state, but also to evacuate machinery" from threatened western regions.

By 1941, approximately 9,000 new plants had been built since the industrialization drive began. The Soviet Union stood as the second largest industrial economy in the world, behind only the United States. This transformation, achieved in barely a decade under socialist planning and Stalin's leadership, had no parallel in history.

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The military expansion accompanying this industrial mobilization was equally remarkable. The Soviet Air Force expanded its flight school network from 12 to 83 schools between 1937 and June 1941. Total Red Army personnel grew from 1.5 million in 1938 to five million by June 1941. At the moment Germany launched its invasion, the Red Army fielded approximately 15,470 tanks and 10,775 combat aircraft on the western front alone.

These were not the weapons of a power seeking permanent peace. They were the weapons of a state preparing for total war. The T-34 medium tank, which would prove superior to any German armored vehicle and anchor Soviet armored operations from Kursk to Berlin, entered mass production during this period. The KV-1 heavy tank, impervious to most German anti-tank weapons at the time of its introduction, was deployed.

The Ilyushin Il-2 ground-attack aircraft, so lethal that German soldiers nicknamed it the "flying tank," entered service. Every major weapons system that would eventually defeat Nazi Germany was conceived, designed, tested, and put into production during the years the pact gave Stalin to prepare.

The pact also secured something of incalculable military value: strategic depth. The reintegration of western territories into the Soviet sphere pushed the USSR's defensive frontier hundreds of miles further west, placing critical additional distance between German lines of departure and the vital centers of Moscow, Leningrad, and the Donbas industrial heartland. In the titanic land war that followed, those miles represented weeks of defensive time.

The German armies came agonizingly close to Moscow in December 1941 but fell short. The buffer secured by the pact was a meaningful contribution to ensuring they never closed that final distance. A Germany that launched Barbarossa from the borders of 1938 rather than 1941 would have begun hundreds of miles closer to the Soviet heartland. The consequences could have been decisive.